Fix Windows 10 problems with System Restore

Windows 10 is well equipped for recovering from problems that prevent
your PC from working properly. Here’s how to use its various options.

http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/comp...11364008291943

By Julian Prokaza
Last updated: 15 March 2017

Windows 10 is pretty robust when it comes to recovering from problems
that might stop it from working properly, but there may come a time when
it needs some manual intervention.

Microsoft’s latest operating system has a similar set of recovery tools
as easier versions for this, but not all work in the way you’d expect
and there are some new options at your disposal, too.

So while we hope you never need any of the advice given here, it’s worth
familiarising yourself with Windows 10’s various recovery options should
the need to use one of them ever arise.

http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/computing/how-to-fix-windows-10-problems-with-system-restore-11364008291943

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David B.

On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 08:09:15 +0100, "David B."
wrote:

Windows 10 is well equipped for recovering from problems that prevent
your PC from working properly. Here’s how to use its various options.

http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/comp...11364008291943

By Julian Prokaza
Last updated: 15 March 2017

Windows 10 is pretty robust when it comes to recovering from problems
that might stop it from working properly, but there may come a time when
it needs some manual intervention.

Microsoft’s latest operating system has a similar set of recovery tools
as easier versions for this, but not all work in the way you’d expect
and there are some new options at your disposal, too.

So while we hope you never need any of the advice given here, it’s worth
familiarising yourself with Windows 10’s various recovery options should
the need to use one of them ever arise.

http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/computing/how-to-fix-windows-10-problems-with-system-restore-11364008291943

My mouse and keyboard have *never* worked properly. There is no way a
restore will fix that.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

David B. wrote:
Windows 10 is well equipped for recovering from problems that prevent
your PC from working properly. Here’s how to use its various options.

http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/comp...11364008291943


By Julian Prokaza
Last updated: 15 March 2017

Windows 10 is pretty robust when it comes to recovering from problems
that might stop it from working properly, but there may come a time when
it needs some manual intervention.

Microsoft’s latest operating system has a similar set of recovery tools
as easier versions for this, but not all work in the way you’d expect
and there are some new options at your disposal, too.

So while we hope you never need any of the advice given here, it’s worth
familiarising yourself with Windows 10’s various recovery options should
the need to use one of them ever arise.

http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/computing/how-to-fix-windows-10-problems-with-system-restore-11364008291943

1) Enable System Restore.
That's good advice, in that people might not know it can be
disabled by Microsoft. You also have to check it after OS upgrades,
as the policy has changed from one to the next upgrade.

2) But, System Restore should not be used if you have malware.
If you go to a malware removal forum, one of the first things
they make you do, is "turf" the restore points (because they're
infected). So System Restore is only suited to more benign
situations.

3) Starting in Safe Mode. A wonderful idea. Only problem is, your
system won't boot at all, so you cannot use the "Advanced Options"
when you need it the most. You are hardly ever in a happy situation
where you have access to "Advanced Options". The machine is broken,
and won't go to that happy place for you.

You can set up a boot screen that happens before Windows boots,
that looks like this. This is an extra step to booting,
and extra screen to go through. Mine only shows one OS choice
(Win10), but also has the F8 option listed.

https://i2.wp.com/www.nextofwindows....-Boot-Menu.png

This adds it from an Administrator Command Prompt, on a healthy system.

bcdedit /set {bootmgr} displaybootmenu False

And if you boot a sick system with the installer DVD, this command
will add the necessary screen, as an "offline" edit of the BCD.

bcdedit /store C:\boot\BCD /set {bootmgr} displaybootmenu False

Note that, on Win10, you won't get that screen if you're multi-booting.
So if that screen said "Win10" on the first row, and "Win7" on
the second row, in fact the OS wouldn't even stop to show you
that menu at all. At least, that's how it behaved on my
Win10/Win10 dual boot setup.

I think there's another way to get into Safe Mode, perhaps
with the Shift key, but maybe someone else remembers the details.

4) "Reset", "Refresh", "Recovery"... ? Mostly rubbish.
I recommend you back up your C: partition with a backup
program, and just restore a working copy. That's about
the best I could do here. The others always seem to
have their little "issues'.

So that article is mostly a parroting of what other
sites would be telling you. If the author of the article
had tried some of them, then they might not be as happy
about the whole thing. It's a lot of work to test that
stuff thoroughly (and I'm not getting paid to do that here).
Maybe they should have had someone in the BT IT department
write that article (the person who repairs BT desktop computers
in the billing department).

Paul